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    BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg exposed spreading OUTRIGHT LIE about Labour activist Archived Message

    Posted by Gerard on December 9, 2019, 7:51 pm, in reply to "Peston & Kuenssberg pushing fake news for Tories"

    "Earlier today, Boris Johnson was roundly criticised after grabbing a reporter’s phone off of him after being confronted with a shocking picture of a 4-year old boy with pneumonia who was forced to lie on the floor of Leeds General Hospital A&E for hours.

    In an attempt to mitigate the damage of Johnson’s car crash interview, the Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock was dispatched to the hospital to try and calm things down.

    However, whilst leaving the hospital, Hancock – accompanied by several advisors – was greeted by Labour activists and protestors barracking him for the horrendous state of the NHS.

    Hancock did not engage with the protestors, and entered his vehicle and sped off.

    However, shortly after the Tory Health Secretary had left, the BBC’s Chief Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, tweeted that the incident had supposedly “turned nasty” and that one of the Labour activists had “punched Hancock’s advisor“:

    Yet, immediately following Kuenssberg’s claim, some of the protestors at the scene stated on social media that her claim was an outright lie.

    Kuenssberg responded by posting another tweet saying that, in reality, it wasn’t “entirely clear what happened“:

    And just minutes later, a video emerged showing that the supposed “punch” was actually the Tory advisor literally walking into the outstretched arm of a protester:" https://evolvepolitics.com/bbcs-laura-kuenssberg-exposed-spreading-lies-about-labour-activist-punching-tory-advisor/

    I saw what happened on the news, there was no indication at all that Hancock was flustered (except in haste), or injured in any way when he got in the car and sped off

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